Can I call you all beckies or is that a slur? I said all that more earlier, except it was way funnier, and I talked about my sex life and makeup and fake eyelashes and all the rest earlier. You should have come.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh my god, can I call you all beckys? Or is that a slur? You have to tell me in 2020.

He asked the crowd.

Well? The answer is no, it doesn't seem to be, and

I'm really glad for that, because I was thinking about a time that seemed strange at

the time, not so long ago, that today almost seems like quaint.

Like, ha ha, isn't that funny?

Even though at the time I was like, this is really strange.

And it's a real moment, and I think it really speaks to where we are right now in a country,

because it is a little bit about race, but mostly it's about tone deafness on race.

And I'm sure nobody's gotten sick of that topic, especially if you're fan of Bon Appetit online.

So, I thought I would delve into it just a little bit more while you're trying to have some fun and be entertained.

So, just real quick, I kind of thought

2012 was the end of the world not because of the Mayan thing?

Because that's ridiculous. For one, like, I kind of know somebody from that region of the world,

and they're like, no, it just means the calendar's turning over.

And I go, what does that mean? They go, oh, we have no fucking clue.

I went, okay, well, that's not great, but that does, all right, okay.

That is a different answer than what you are getting on

the news, and that does kind of satisfy me. So, I will take it. But at a certain point, watching

the Republican National Politic Machine in 2012, I just thought, like, this is the end of the world.

Like, this is an acid trip that I began, and I can emerge from. This is fear and loathing in

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